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THE PEOPLES MARCH – the Fifth Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy….A mass mobilization. The Peoples March – Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy We will hold Oscar Grant Plaza from sunrise to sunset. The schedule is still evolving, and includes an entire day of events, remembrance, building, and organizing. There will be hourly rituals, including the sounding of a gong and lighting or torches to call our attention to the ways our community is harmed by violence. The tentative schedule is below: 7:20 am – 7:45 am – Sunrise Ceremony … Continued

“I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that [they] will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “A Christmas Sermon on Peace” In partnership with the Robby Poblete Foundation and United Playaz, Lead to Life invites you to join us for a live metal alchemy ceremony to transform guns into shovels, and to call in the … Continued

Thursday’s 1/10/19 meeting was not the final task force meeting after all. They will meet again on Monday January 14 from 3 to 8pm and then again on January 22 from 9-11am. As of 1/14, the Task Force completed its votes on recommendations. This meeting on the 23rd will be pro forma to put the recommendations into final form to forward to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. ===== Meeting of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ Ad Hoc Committee on Urban Area Security Initiative, charged with reconstituting and rethinking … Continued

TIME FOR TENANT AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING Fed up with rising rents? Already displaced? Working together makes the difference! Featured Speaker: Vanessa Riles is Interfaith and Community Organizer for East Bay Housing Organizations. She will talk about the spring Community Leadership Academy and her earlier experiences as a leader and community organizer of the Oakland Justice/East 12th Coalition. They won a 2-year campaign, turned around city policies in 2017, and saved public land for local affordable housing instead of subsidizing a for-profit developer. Talk, Q&A,and discussion are followed by social time … Continued

This presentation is for anyone interested in learning more about how Restorative Justice can change the criminal justice system and stop the school to prison pipeline. Join in the discussion to create deeper Restorative Practices on a state, county and local level. RSVP to gamaliel.genesisca@gmail.com65460

January 2019 Privacy Lab – Data Privacy Compliance Under the Law: Addressing corporate compliance with evolving US/Int’l. privacy laws. Bios: The Hastings Intellectual Property Association (HIPA) will host the January Privacy Lab. HIPA is a UC Hastings student organization with the mission to promote and foster the study and practice of intellectual property law for all past, current, and future Hastings students. HIPA recognizes the increasing importance of privacy law and seeks to educate students and the extended legal community on it’s importance through partnership with the Privacy Lab and … Continued

JOINT WALK‐IN CLINICS with Public Defender and EBCLC *Please bring your statewide CA DOJ RAP sheet if you have it or we can give information at clinic* We may be able to help with:  Dismissal of Conviction – PC 1203.4  Felony Reduction / Prop 47 and 64 Relief  Early Termination of Probation  Certificate of Rehabilitation  Sealing Arrest Record – Factual Innocence  Juvenile Record Sealing  Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants and Survivors of Human Trafficking  Employment denials due to criminal background reports  Occupational … Continued

As DPW continually confiscates property at the behest of the city govt, the BOS appears poised to enact SB-1045, a dangerous bill meant to conserve homeless folks with a prior history of 5150 holds in mental institutions without their consent. The city puts these efforts into attacking the poor while the Bayview is still without even a full service shelter after decades of broken promises. The people of SF demand housing and appropriate services. Join the Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance in exposing these actions of the city of SF, … Continued

ALSO 1/27/19 @ 12:30 pm @ 474 24th Street, Oakland When Elouise Cobell, a Blackfeet warrior from Montana, started asking questions about missing money from government-managed Indian Trust accounts, she never imagined that one day she would be taking on the U.S. government. But what she discovered as the Treasurer of her tribe was a trail of fraud and corruption leading all the way from Montana to Washington DC. 100 Years is the story of her 30-year fight for justice for 300,000 Native Americans whose mineral- rich lands were grossly … Continued

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